News

[6 Dec 2018]
The BRIGHT-project started in 2016 with the aim to further socioeconomic development in Uganda by enhancing the ICT capacity. One of the main objectives is to educate ten doctoral students, which is well underway with PhD-projects within e-health, translation and industry collaboration.

[23 Nov 2018]
Software metrics is measuring and evaluating different properties of a software to, for example, speed up product development. In the next step, researchers want to apply machine learning and artificial intelligence to the results to maximize the insight provided by software metrics.

[23 Oct 2018]
Jane Cleland-Huang, professor in Software Engineering at University of Notre Dame du Lac, Indiana, USA, was awarded the honorary doctorate at the IT Faculty on 19 October.
Jane is an eminent researcher in the area of requirements engineering, safety critical systems and traceability.

[15 Oct 2018]
Riccardo Scandariato's main area of expertise is secure software engineering and privacy, with an emerging focus on artificial intelligence. Can "synthetic co-workers" help create more secure software? And how can autonomous cars understand and follow ethical reasoning? These are some of the questions in Riccardo's research.

[26 Sep 2018]
At the beginning of 2018, computer security experts discovered that all modern processors have two major security flaws that can be used to access sensitive data, such as password or credit card information. A new research project at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering will investigate how to find and fix similar hardware bugs in the future, funded by a grant from Intel.

[17 Aug 2018]
The European Research Paper of the Year award recognizes the best, most solid and relevant European research papers of the past year. Fredrik Svahn, Lars Mathiassen, and Rikard Lindgren was recently awarded the Runner-up for their MIS Quarterly article ¿Embracing Digital Innovation in Incumbent Firms: How Volvo Cars Managed Competing Concerns¿. The prize was received June 11, during the CIONext conference in Brussels.

[13 Aug 2018]
As a recently graduated engineer in the late 1990's Fredrik Svahn early discovered the tension that appeared in large projects when traditional industry production went over to use digital software. Many years later Fredrik has started a research project where the intention is to do a survey of how Volvo Cars integrates the mechanics with modern electronics.

[4 Jul 2018]
Marisa Ponti will spend a year of absence at the EU Commission's Joint Research Centre located in Ispra, Italy, working in the research programme "Digitranscope: Digital Transformation and Governance of Human Society".